This book is about the West Sussex village of Felpham, my current home. From 1800 until 1803, the artist and poet William Blake also lived in Felpham, his only home outside London. He described the village as “the sweetest spot on Earth” and penned the words “in England’s green and pleasant land” whilst living in the vilage.

In Blake’s lifetime, Felpham was a tiny isolated village of just 305 people, living in 71 houses. Today the village houses over ten thousand and has merged with neighbouring towns and villages to become part of conurbation with a population of over sixty thousand.

This series of photographs explores Felpham in the twenty first century in the context of Blake’s writing, pairing modern photographs with his words from two hundred years ago.